Good Morning - Give Away

How would you like to win some amazing My Mind's Eye product?  Here are the details on what you need to do...ready, set, go!!!  Kate Vickers from Scrapsation is giving away some goodies and all you have to do is show some love.  The give away includes the following:

1.  My Mind’s Eye – Follow Your Heart, Be Amazing 6 X 6 paper pad

2.  My Mind’s Eye – Follow Your Heart, Be Happy 6 X 6 paper pad

3.  Package of Jillibean Soup stamps

4.  Package of American Crafts brads

5.  Maya Road chipboard

Now for what you need to do:

Leave a comment for your chance to win this yummy package on Kate Vickers blog, Scrapsation. This contest is open to anyone, anywhere, whether I’m a real life friend of yours, an online friend or I don’t know you at all. Open to residents of planet Earth. Contest closes on April 29 and the winner will be announced here on April 30. Good luck!

Gain extra entries by doing one or all of the following:

1.  Follow my Blog through Networked Blogs or by subscribing via email (see the right sidebar) – Two extra entries for followers!

2.  Blog about my giveaway on your Blog (leave a comment and link to tell me about it).

3.  Tweet about my giveaway or tell your Facebook Friends about it.

Enjoy and "may the odds be ever in your favor"!  :))

Oldie But Goodie

So how about some old projects I've worked on brought to light?! Hmmm, I think so.

Created for no reason in particular, this "i <3 u" card makes me smile. I love the sweetness of it and it's simplicity too. Maybe one day, for no reason in particular, I'll give it to the hubby or someone near and dear to my heart. ;) Great for a birthday card too. Anywho:

Cupcakes, hearts, zig zags, and twine, oh my! Hehe. Stamp, cut out, and turn your Lawn Fawn polaroid stamp from the Say Cheese set on it's side and embelish as you please. My cupcake and heart embellies are also Lawn Fawn and they are from their Bake Me A Cake set. Total awesomeness I must say! Super versatile set and like with all their sets, you get such clean even stamped images. No skipping, and if you're a stamper, you know not all stamps work very well.

I strung some white and green twine from The Twinery across the top of the polaroid stamp and hung my cupcakes from it using itty bitty clothes pins that I found at Michaels. Super cute, eh?! The "i" and the "u" are also Lawn Fawn and they are from the Harold's ABC set. And lastly, but certainly not least, everything is paperpieced using MME's Alphabet Soup Collection. Have I mentioned how much I absolutely love MME? The texture and paper quality is off the charts in my opinion and their colors and designs are just plain awesome. Totally the closest to my style.

Enjoy peeps!

I will be posting more old projects soon. Stay tuned! ;)

Sweet Smile

My son has the sweetest smile I've ever seen. His face lights up every time and his gorgeous dimples are to die for! I have sooooo many pictures of him smiling, he's always smiling, and I thought it would be perfect to make a page for his album with a few different pictures of his smile. Here it is...

Not to mention, I really wanted to use My Mind's Eye, Alphabet Soup (the boys line). The paper is so fun and simple! I love My Mind's Eye!!

For this layout, I used 3 different pictures of my son and cut them down as fit to make them, together, one 5x7.

I drew the hot air balloons on the paper and cut them out, pieced them together with pop up foamies and some bakers twine, used a button from Papertrey Ink on the smaller one as the basket, and voala!! Sooo stinkin' cute! :)

The banner I also cut myself. It's basically 1.5 inch thick strips of patterned paper cut to different lengths. For the tip, I lightly folded the strips in half, being very careful to not crease the paper to much, and cut at an angle like you would the tips of ribbon. I added the bakers twine along the top and continued it randomly on the page. I love the final result!

Whoo Loves You?

My Mind's Eye paper is amazing. I don't think I've come accross a line by them that I don't like.

You know, the other day, as I was organizing my stash of paper I realized something that made me smile. Most of the paper I was looking through has been sitting for quite some time; my scrap booking took a vacation for a minute. Anyway, what I was looking through dates back as far as when I first started scrap booking, like 5 years back, and back then I had no idea how many different companies are out there, I simply picked out papers I liked. Little did I know, I was picking out mostly the same few companies, My Mind's Eye being one of them. Now I know better; now I know to look for you! :)

This mini is for my mom. It spells out "Nanny" which is what my kids and niece call her; she refuses to be called grandma or abuela! It holds pictures of her grand babies. Of course, I wanted to keep it once I had the finished product in my hand :).

handmade flower

journaling tag


I made this little girl's skirt with a piece of pretty ribbon I had, kind of scrunched it up, sewed the top together so it looks like a skirt, glued it to the girl with fabri tac, and attached a little piece of twine from Papertrey Ink tied into a bow to the corner making it look like its part of the skirt! Super cute!


my favorite pages in the whole book! "Who Loves You?" The little owl was pretty simple to make. I got this idea from Elizabeth Kartchner's blog. Check them out! She made little stuffed owls with some real cute fabric, well, I thought they'd make great embelishments, AND I was right :). They are about 2.5x3 inches and really super fun to make.


just a few pictures of the kids.


The end. Enjoy!

Good Morning

Finally, a scrapbook page for Jaylyn’s book. She’s going to be one in 2 months and I have all of like 3 pages in her scrapbook, bad mommy!

This page, to me, is so soft and sweet. It’s actually a great reflection of what my baby girl is, soft and sweet. Everything is mounted on Bazzill Basics Paper, French Vanilla Cardstock. I used My Mind’s Eye, Lost & Found, for all the embellishments. The little girl stamp with the heart balloons and the blue hearts are by Prima. Simply adorable!

The Lost & Found papers I used were actually given to me by my friend Heather in a pile of scraps she didn't want anymore or had already used. How perfect did that work out. :)

Supply:
My Mind's Eyes, Lost & Found; Bazzill Basics Paper, French Vanilla Cardstock; Prima Clear Stamps, J&J Up Up and Away, Twine from Papertrey Ink